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Verge of Chaos. "There is no money at all," said Mayor Schaefer, who has refused to consider higher pay boosts. "There is no city money, no state money and no federal money on the horizon." The plight of Baltimore, which has the lowest per capita income and highest property taxes in Maryland, is similar to that of many other major cities faced with increasingly rebellious public employees...
...impressive in the vibrant scenes of Brazilian life in Black Orpheus. The Traitors, with its filmed scenes in the crowded neighborhoods of Buenos Aires, captures the struggle of life waged by these impoverished workers so exploited by their leaders. Whether through a scene explicitly intended to demonstrate the plight of the lower class, or through the unconscious eloquence of Argentine faces and ramshackle urban dwellings, The Traitors conveys the unmistakable texture of Latin American poverty...
...hand. Tom Finley, 21, also a Telegraph Avenue regular, earns a scant $40 a month, mostly by selling his blood. Annie Peters, 17, lives off the refuse in Berkeley garbage cans and occasionally peddles dope. Though their names have been changed, their stories are very real and typify the plight of what two social scientists at the University of California in Berkeley call the Skid...
...most luxurious suburbs are equipped with burglar alarms and watchdogs. Putting so much trust in education, they fear that lower-class blacks may be a bad influence on their own children. Cornelius Golightly, professor of philosophy at Wayne State University, describes the black middle-class parents' plight: "If my son is to get along well in school, then he has to have a commitment to middle-class values. But if he wants to get along well with his classmates, he may have to go along with the kinds of things that his classmates do. So he has the choice...
...here Coleman's objective analysis ends. Rarely does he show a recognition that permanently performing a menial role crushes the working man's dignity in support of the upper class. Rather, any larger sense of the working man's plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the lost muscles in his back, for the simple and direct language he knows he will find in the ditch. So he settles into comfortable generalizations, of the meaningless sophistication of white-collar workers who perform interesting tasks and the rude but honest manners of blue-collar workers who execute monotonous manual...